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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

There are two key things which have made Airbnb a killer business… the first, which generally gets all the attention, is the unlocking of a vast supply of new lodging inventory (see note 1). For what it’s worth, I suspect that Airbnb will continue to grow fairly rapidly and continue to redefine the lodging category.

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5 Stages Of The Market Lifecycle Gate Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Valuations here are always low, and funding generally depends on friends and family, or a few forward-thinking angels. Now the emergence of autonomous and driverless vehicles fits into this nascent future potential category. The market at this point is largely unknown and untested. Market is recognized as real and growing by investors.

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Israel Generative AI predictions for 2024

VC Cafe

With that being said, corporates have generally leaned in to the generative AI trend and are currently working out their own strategy to implement generative AI and automation into their products safely. After a tough 2023, I expect 2024 to be a bumpy year for Israeli generative AI startups.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

They fell into two categories: some projects were designed to automate existing workflows of decoding known ciphers; others were used to discover breaks into new ciphers. As complicated as the ERA machines were, they were still single function machines, not general purpose computers. The report remained Top Secret for decades.

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How to Conduct a Plan Vs Actual Analysis With Spreadsheets

Up and Running

Categories matter. It’s way easier to build a budget based on the categories in accounting. Rather than having to build a budget with different categories, and then convert and synchronize to compare your budget with actual results. This next step is why you set your categories to match your accounting outputs.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For images a rule of thumb is that a machine learning algorithm needs at least 5,000 labeled examples of each category in order to produce an AI model with decent performance.) Their real-world performance generally degrades over time if they are not updated regularly with new training data that matches the changing state of the world.

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Revisiting the Craft Beer Metaphor for the VC Industry

View from Seed

VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. Most notable was the near merger between KP and Social Capital and more recently, General Catalyst’s merger with La Famiglia. A lot of offerings that were innovative at one time are table stakes today.

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